Review of the Literature on Aboriginal Sex Offenders of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Dewey J. Ertz
[Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky]
Description
Provides synopsis of limited information available on this specific population.
Appendix includes Review of the Literature on Aboriginal Sex Offenders of Canada, New Zealand, and Australia by Christopher Lobanov-Rostovsky.
CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal, vol. 187, no. 16, November 03, 2015, pp. E463-E464
Description
Reports on the relationship between child sexual abuse and youth suicide in Nunavut which has a suicide rate nearly 10 times greater than the rest of Canada.
Reports about the years of neglect by professionals and the social care system that led to the death of a young Aboriginal woman, Paige Gauchier, from a drug overdose on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Duration: 21:13.
Report by the BC Representative for Children and Youth Paige's Story: Abuse, Indifference and a Young Life Discarded.
Years of neglect by professionals and the social care system led to the death of a young Aboriginal woman from a drug overdose in Vancouver's downtown eastside. This report is her story.
Related documentary A Life Discarded.
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 10, no. 2, Special Edition: 10th Anniversary of the Reconciliation: Touchstones of Hope for Indigenous Children, 2015, pp. [12]-14
Description
Message from the Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, vol. 27, no. 2, After Equality, 2015, pp. 311-335
Description
"This article examines the role this figure [an abused Aboriginal child] has played in assertions of Australian law's violent jurisdictions, in the past and in the present".
Educational documentary which recounts the experiences of three survivors. One attended the Pelican Lake Indian Residential School, another attended the McIntosh Indian Residential School.
Duration: 48:45.
MIKM 2701: Learning From Knowledge Keepers of Mi'kma'ki
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Stephen Augustine
Ashlee Cunsolo Willox
Clark Paul
Karen Burnard
Michael R. Denny
Description
Clark Paul shares his emotional and inspiring story of his experience at residential school. Stephen Augustine provides an overview of residential schools in Canada.
Presentations begin at 20:35.
Duration: 2:41:51.